Tag: SBIRS
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Live coverage: Atlas 5 launches from Cape Canaveral with missile warning satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Atlas 5 rocket with the U.S. Air Force’s SBIRS GEO Flight 4 missile warning satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Launch Alliance’s live video webcast of the Atlas 5 launch will begin at 7:28 p.m. EST on Jan. 19 (0028 GMT on Jan.…
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Rocket and satellite preps on track for next Atlas 5 launch
File photo of an Atlas 5 first stage booster being raised at the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad. Credit: ULA Final assembly of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket slated to blast off Jan. 18 with a U.S. Air Force surveillance satellite designed to detect missile attacks has begun…
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Photos: Atlas 5 launches SBIRS GEO Flight 3
Launching a highly sophisticated infrared surveillance satellite for the U.S. military, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket thunders away from Cape Canaveral. Credit: Alex Polimeni / Spaceflight Now See earlier SBIRS GEO Flight 3 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Atlas 5 rocket successfully delivers vital national asset into space
CAPE CANAVERAL — A new infrared reconnaissance satellite for one of the United States’ highest priority space programs — making early detection of enemy missile launches — was successfully delivered into orbit Friday by an Atlas 5 rocket. The United Launch Alliance booster, flying its its basic two-stage varient, gracefully climbed from Complex 41 at…
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Video: Missile alert satellite launches atop Atlas 5
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 189 feet tall and and weighing 720,000 pounds, unleashes 860,000 pounds of thrust from its main engine to launch the SBIRS GEO Flight 3 early-warning satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Launch preparations See earlier SBIRS GEO Flight 3 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Photos: Another SBIRS soars atop Atlas 5
The Atlas 5 rocket lifted the SBIRS GEO Flight 3 missile warning sentinel into orbit, advancing space technology for surveillance and security. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Scriptunas Images See earlier SBIRS GEO Flight 3 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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Photos: First ULA mission of the year blasts off
Marking United Launch Alliance’s first rocket flight in 2017, beginning its year of national security and science-enabling missions, the Atlas 5 rocket departs Cape Canaveral carrying the SBIRS GEO Flight 3 satellite. Credit: United Launch Alliance See earlier SBIRS GEO Flight 3 coverage. Our Atlas archive.
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ULA Atlas V conducts SBIRS-GEO-3 launch from the Cape
The US Air Force’s third Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous missile detection satellite rode to orbit atop United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket on Friday, lifting off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, following a scrub of Thursday’s opening attempt. Atlas V Launch: Thursday’s attempt was proceeding to plan until a sensor issue resulted in…
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Photos: Atlas 5 rocket receives its payload for Jan. 19 launch
The third Space Base Infrared Systems Geosynchronous Earth Orbit, or SBIRS GEO Flight 3, was hoisted atop the Atlas 5 on Jan.12 to complete the pre-flight assembly of the 189-foot-tall rocket for launch. The United Launch Alliance booster will deploy U.S. military satellite on Jan. 19, departing from Cape Canaveral during a 40-minute launch window…
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Photos: Atlas 5 rolled out with SBIRS GEO Flight 3
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket was transfered from its assembly building to the pad at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 today for Thursday’s launch of the U.S. military’s third SBIRS GEO missile warning satellite. Liftoff is planned for 7:46 p.m. EST (0046 GMT). The rocket was wheeled out aboard a mobile launcher platform, emerging…